Kangite

Kangite

Kangite

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Kangite is an exceedingly rare scandium mineral, a natural form of impure scandium oxide (Sc2O3), with the formula (Sc,Ti,Al,Zr,Mg,Ca,□)2O3. It crystallizes in the cubic crystal system diploidal class.[1] In terms of chemistry it scandium-analogue of tistarite. Both kangite and tistarite were discovered in the Allende meteorite.[2][1][3][4]

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    Mindat, Kangite, http://www.mindat.org/min-42879.doc
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    Ma, C., Tschauner, O., Beckett, J.R., Rossmann, G.R., and Liu, W., 2013: Kangite, (Sc,Ti,Al,Zr,Mg,Ca,□)2O3, a new ultra-refractory scandia mineral from the Allende meteorite: Synchrotron micro-Laue diffraction and electron backscatter diffraction. American Mineralogist 98(5-6), 870-878
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    Mindat, Tistarite, http://www.mindat.org/min-38695.doc
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    Mindat, Yttriaite-(Y), http://www.mindat.org/min-40471.doc


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